Fine. It’s electricity use. Being north of 5% of a state’s electricity use is a problem.

The clothing industry is also orders of magnitude worse, and insanely wasteful. But no, it’s only now people are suddenly up in arms about water consumption.

I’m not with you on energy use, though. It’s already over 5% in the US, and we don’t even know how bad it is in data-center-dense Texas (which means it’s bad), in a state with an already notoriously unreliable energy grid. Still is the case sometimes that politics is local.

For me, as bad as it sounds, it’s gotta be scheduled and that schedule’s gotta have strict boundaries. My drive to get things done has been a problem lately, but I might be an extreme example because I just unlocked my life this year between Adderall, ADHD strategies, and trauma therapy.

If it’s during the day, full-on relaxation is generally only during a 20-minute yoga routine. Otherwise, it’s after my hard stop time for the day or it’s on a day off. Change of venue really helps, too.

Yet again, incompetence being the only thing saving us from fully entrenched fascism

A few classics that haven’t been mentioned yet are Rear Window, The Planet of the Apes (1968), and Se7en. Se7en is absolutely still worth watching even if spoiled by the memes. Parasite is also a good, more recent one.

Absolutely love it. I frequently find myself dying on the “characters with generous proportions can be a good thing sometimes” hill, so it’s nice to find support when I can. And it’s for exactly all the reasons laid out in this article.

Xbox consoles were up 86% YoY in June. I wouldn’t be surprised if people are seeing the eye-popping prices on hardware and choosing to make their purchases now. (June 2025 was also the Switch 2 release, which surely suppressed sales last year.)

That said, I think Steam’s prices–along with with other swiftly rising handheld PCs–are the canary in the coal mine here. Next gen is going to have some wild sticker shock.

First off, get on the waiting lists today if you aren’t already, before anything else. Therapist churn is a thing, especially at more affordable clinics, and it’s better to have options than not once you get started. Even when established at a clinic and you have to move to someone new, they won’t necessarily get you to another provider quickly.

As for video calls, I’ve been in therapy for 10 years. I’ve done in-person, telephone, and video calls. The best work I’ve done in therapy has been in the past six months, and it’s all been over video call. The mode matters less than the fit, and telehealth gives you access to a lot more providers.

I’ve never been with a service that records conversations, but I’d avoid the big therapy mills like BetterHelp. Even setting aside the well-documented sketchy behavior aside, I can’t imagine they hold onto people for long.

Wait until you get to Persona 2: Innocent Sin. Ugh, it still makes me uncomfortable how on-point it is.

Started up Final Fantasy VI T-Edition this week, very early in. Mog absolutely wrecked face on the guard boss fight, that was funny. It’ll be fun to use chars in different ways, and I don’t even know what all is different yet.

I did! Fio is great.

The Secret World of Arrietty. An adaptation of The Borrowers, it has great determined teenage girl energy and gorgeous artwork that they really made the most of.

Princess Mononoke is one of my favorite films, so I’ve been slowly going through the Studio Ghibli catalog.

Probably still the best gunfight ever put on film.

87 on OpenCritic. If I’m being honest, that’s quite a bit higher than I was expecting after playing the demo. The gameplay felt novel for about three fights before it quickly started to feel like extruded third-person shooter product.

Unless I start hearing really strong things about the story, I’ll probably be waiting for a sale.

I have never understood this. Heard it with Undertale, too. One can always just ignore the weirdos in the fanbase?

I got absolutely sucked into Mewgenics the past month, still playing that. It doesn’t help that no other recent releases have caught my eye, and there aren’t really any on the horizon other than Mina the Hollower, which still doesn’t even have a release date.

Cinematic style as in it’s heavy on cutscenes, or that you didn’t like the art direction? If it’s the former, that’s been the general orientation of the genre for a little while now.

You could try something more gameplay-oriented, like Octopath Traveler, Shin Megami Tensei V, or Rune Factory.

Aside from those in the nuclear club not wanting to share power, nuclear proliferation causes a lot of problems. It creates more flashpoints for escalating into a world-ending nuclear exchange or for non-state actors to obtain devices for terrorism, etc. The world stood at the brink for a while and decided decades ago the ultimate goal is to reduce the number of nuclear arms.

On the flip side, this is why the recent-ish invasions of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Venezuela, the intervention in Libya, and China’s saber-rattling against Taiwan–among others–are serious matters. It teaches regimes around the world you will only be safe if you have a nuclear deterrent. North Korea applied that lesson, and they won’t be the last at this rate.

Disappointing, though ultimately a small part of my PC library in the end. Enjoyed Horizon Zero Dawn and loved both parts of The Last of Us. Yet they never did bring over The Last Guardian, Bloodborne, or Bluepoint’s remakes (I played the original Shadow of the Colossus and Demon’s Souls).

Intergalactic is the only upcoming title I’m interested in, and that’s nowhere enough for me to spend on a PS5.